Appeal No. 97-2886
Application 08/441,493
and that clearly, this "drag" feature on computer interfaces
"is used so that one can follow an icon from a source to a
destination (or a letter from a source to a destination as in
the instant invention)."
Like appellant, we find nothing in the teachings of
Cunningham referred to by the examiner, or in the "drag" mode of
known computer interfaces relied upon by the examiner, which
would have led one of ordinary skill in the art to modify the
previously known version of the anagram game REVELATION™
described in appellant's specification so as to arrive at the
particular apparatus set forth in appellant's claim 1 on appeal.
Neither Cunningham, nor the known "drag" modes we are aware of,
provide any teaching or suggestion of 1) moving characters of an
anagram-type game along "a path defined by a predetermined
plurality of points from said character's initial position to
said character's final position" or 2) a "character moving means
for moving each of said characters along its respective path...
in response to selection of said character," as defined in
appellant's claim 1. In contrast with the examiner's
characterization of the "drag" mode used in the "File Manager"
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